Am 05/13/2014 05:56 PM, schrieb Tal Daniel:
On 13 May Tal Daniel wrote:
I'd like to suggest to replace the "Native Language" link, on
www.openoffice.org menu to a more visible dropbox.
E.g. Product | Download | ... | "Lanauge: [English ]"
I believe users are more accustomed to select their language from a
select
box, rather than clicking "native language" (I remember I had a hard
time,
as a beginner OpenOffice site visitor to understand what does this link
mean).
This would also allow faster move to a translated version of the site,
for
people who prefer to read it in their language.
+ Another suggestion is to move the suggested dropdown box above the menu
bar, somewhere near the search box.
+1
On Tue, May 13 Louis Suárez-Potts wrote:
Andrea can probably correct me here but long ago we did in fact want to
use the drop down menu. The issue, then, if not now, was that the tools
available were thought not generally in use by visitors to the site.
The usual rule of thumb for making things easier for users is to see what
the more popular sites do (that seems to work, of course) and emulate it.
Some examples, to show that a dropdown, or auto redirection ARE common
practice nowadays:
* Mozilla.com redirects by browser language to
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/and has a dropdown box on the bottom of
page (that's surprising), just in
case [they were wrong].
* Microsoft.com redirects by IP (country) to
http://www.microsoft.com/he-il/default.aspx and has a link "Israel - Hebrew
[Earth icon]" on the bottom of the page, just in case [they were wrong].
* Adobe.com stays in English, but opens a popup with an offer to be
redirected to a regional website.
Oh Marcus, Marcus... where are you when I need your skills the most :)
ahm, I'm not here. ;-)
Honestly, I would like to get the download feature finished first,
before I start another website change as my time for AOO is very limited.
However, if you have some HTML/JS/CSS skills you could try yourself:
http://www.openoffice.org/test/
Update its content with a current copy of the
http://www.openoffice.org/index.html page(s) and just start. If
something gets broken, then only in the "test/" area which nobody bothers.
Marcus
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